Evening England,

Well we arrived safely at about 2pm local time and spent a good hour or so setting up rooms and getting to know our new home - Canteclaer in Holzgau.

The view from the windows is of snow capped Austrian Alps and it has been snowing on and off all afternoon, although the real snow is due tomorrow.

We spent the rest of the afternoon in the ski shop getting fitted with skis, boots, poles and helmets. We were looked after by an Austrian World Champion Downhill Skier called Pepi Strobl !! Everyone is now fully kitted up and ready to go.

Spaghetti Bolognese for tea and biscuits before some have gone to play ball in the field (they said that, but most just want to jump in great big piles of snow) and everyone else is in bed!!! Yes in bed. Just the start of things to come I suspect.